"invented a new genre of fiction. It was the first book to use a made up world, a “Utopia” in its framing. This spawned books and stories that have continued to dominate the industry of storytelling to this day. Books like “The Hunger Games,” and “Divergent” can all trace their origins back to Thomas More’s most famous work (Getty 321). More wrote this story to make a point about socialism, whether in defense or as a criticism of. It could be argued, however, that Utopia’s greatest impact could be in its world creation. More was the first to create his"
"until the 20th century. In 1516 English humanist Sir Thomas More (1478–1535) published ""Utopia"", which describes an ideal society where land is owned in common and there is universal education and religious tolerance, inspiring the English Poor Laws (1587) and the communism-socialism movement. In 1517 Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) published the first known argument for the quantity theory of money. In 1519 he also published the first known form of Gresham's Law: ""Bad money drives out good"". In 1568 Jean Bodin (1530–1596) of France published ""Reply to Malestroit"", containing the first known analysis of inflation, which he claimed was"
"Roper; another house nearby and entitled Roper House is now a home for the deaf. Note: The reference ""CW"" is to the relevant volume of the ""Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More"" (New Haven and London 1963–1997) Thomas More Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He was also a councillor to Henry VIII, and Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to 16 May 1532. He wrote ""Utopia"", published in 1516,"
"New Atlantis by Francis Bacon, Erewhon by Samuel Butler, and Candide by Voltaire. Although Utopianism combined classical concepts of perfect societies (Plato and Aristotle) with Roman rhetorical finesse (cf. Cicero, Quintilian, epideictic oratory), the Renaissance genre continued into the Age of Enlightenment and survives in modern science fiction. In 1520 the reformer Martin Luther published three works in quick succession: ""An Appeal to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation"" (Aug.), ""Concerning the Babylonish Captivity of the Church"" (Oct.), and ""On the Liberty of a Christian Man"" (Nov.). In these books, Luther set out his doctrine of salvation through grace"
"theology in the West. The epic poetry of the Italian Dante and his ""Divine Comedy"" of the late Middle Ages is also considered immensely influential. The English statesman and philosopher, Thomas More, wrote the seminal work Utopia in 1516. St Ignatius Loyola, a key figure in the Catholic counter-reformation, is the author of an influential book of meditations known as the Spiritual Exercises. In Catholicism, ""Doctor of the Church"" is a name is given to a saint from whose writings the whole Church is held to have derived great advantage and to whom ""eminent learning"" and ""great sanctity"" have been"
"Thomas More Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He was also a councillor to Henry VIII, and Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to 16 May 1532. He wrote ""Utopia"", published in 1516, about the political system of an imaginary, ideal island nation. More opposed the Protestant Reformation, in particular the theology of Martin Luther and William Tyndale. More also opposed the king's separation from the Catholic Church, refusing to acknowledge Henry as Supreme"
"in the text itself. Claims that the book only subverts Utopia and Hythlodaeus are possibly oversimplistic. Utopia was begun while More was an envoy in the Low Countries in May 1515. More started by writing the introduction and the description of the society which would become the second half of the work and on his return to England he wrote the ""dialogue of counsel"", completing the work in 1516. In the same year, it was printed in Leuven under Erasmus's editorship and after revisions by More it was printed in Basel in November 1518. It was not until 1551, sixteen"
"of the cycles of virtue, although the work of Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) such as ""The Muqaddimah"" would be an example that is perhaps more intelligible to modern sociology. Early western examples include Sir Thomas More’s “Utopia,” published in 1516, and based upon Plato’s “Republic,” in which a future society has overcome poverty and misery to create a perfect model for living. This work was so powerful that utopias have come to represent positive and fulfilling futures in which everyone’s needs are met. Some intellectual foundations of futures studies appeared in the mid-19th century. Isadore Comte, considered the father of scientific"
"and Thomas More's ""Utopia"" (1515). The Protestant Reformation was a reform-oriented schism from the Roman Catholic Church initiated by Martin Luther and continued by John Calvin, Huldrych Zwingli, and other early Protestant Reformers. It is typically dated from 1517, lasting until the end of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. It was launched on 31 October 1517 by Martin Luther, who posted his 95 Theses criticizing the practice of indulgences to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, commonly used to post notices to the University community. In was very widely publicized"
"the sixteenth-century book ""Utopia"" by Sir Thomas More, who developed the concept of a utopia in the New World (an idea first explored by Christopher Columbus in his 1501 Book of Prophecies). During the eighteenth century, speculations about the origins of ancient Maya civilization sought to associate Maya history with Biblical stories of Noah's Ark, the Tower of Babel, and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. This included speculation about legendary culture heroes such as Votan and Quetzalcoatl. In the early nineteenth century, Alexander von Humboldt and Lord Kingsborough contributed further to such speculation. Humboldt and Kingsborough were in turn"
"Dystopia A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- ""bad"" and τόπος ""place""; alternatively, cacotopia, kakotopia, or simply anti-utopia) is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening. It is translated as ""not-good place"" and is an antonym of utopia, a term that was coined by Sir Thomas More and figures as the title of his best known work, ""Utopia"", published 1516, a blueprint for an ideal society with minimal crime, violence and poverty. Dystopian societies appear in many artistic works, particularly in stories set in the future. Some of the most famous examples are George Orwell's ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" and Aldous"
"individual cases he generally argued for moderation and against the death penalty. He wrote, ""It is better to cure a sick man than to kill him."" Saint Thomas More (1478–1535), Catholic Lord Chancellor of King Henry VIII and author, described a world of almost complete religious toleration in Utopia (1516), in which the Utopians ""can hold various religious beliefs without persecution from the authorities."" However, More's work is subject to various interpretations, and it is not clear that he felt that earthly society should be conducted the same way as in Utopia. Thus, in his three years as Lord Chancellor,"
"literary career, his book ""Utopia"", or the dispute between Henry VIII and the Pope in Rome. Also the life of More is at times expanded beyond what actually occurred and beyond the sources that were used, in order to suit the drama. What the play is about has been debated, but the issues revolve around obedience to the crown and rule of law, particularly when a populace becomes stirred up in an anti-alien fervor. Even More must obey; when he does not he loses his life. There are three primary actions in the drama: First is the uprising of 1517"
"Antonius Diogenes' ""The incredible wonders beyond Thule"", a genre blending of fantastic voyage and Greek romance which popularized Pythagorean teachings. The first to revive this form in the Modern era was Thomas More in his ""Utopia"" (1515), to be followed a century later by proliferation of utopian islands: Johannes Valentinus Andreae's ""Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio"" (1619), Tommaso Campanella's ""The City of the Sun"" (1623), Francis Bacon's ""New Atlantis"" (1627), Jacob Bidermann's ""Utopia"" (1640), Denis Vairasse' ""The history of the Sevarambi"" (1675), Gabriel de Foigny's ""La Terre australe connue"" (1676), Gabriel Daniel's ""Voyage du monde de Descartes"" (1690), François Lefebvre's ""Relation du"
"is dated 1597, and the 'newly corrected' fourth of 1624 is dedicated by the publisher, Bernard Alsop, to Cresacre More. Subsequent translators were Gilbert Burnet (1684) and Arthur Cayley (1808). From the section ""Of Lawes Not Made According to Equitie"": Ralph Robinson (humanist) Ralph Robinson (1520–1577) was an English scholar and man of letters. He is best known for his English translation of Sir Thomas More's ""Utopia"", originally written in Latin in 1516. Robinson was educated at Stamford School, Lincolnshire and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. At school he was a contemporary of William Cecil later Lord Burghley, Lord High Treasurer"
"Additionally, all of the person's property was confiscated. Attitudes towards suicide slowly began to shift during the Renaissance; Thomas More the English humanist, wrote in ""Utopia"" (1516) that a person afflicted with disease can “free himself from this bitter life…since by death he will put an end not to enjoyment but to torture...it will be a pious and holy action”. John Donne's work ""Biathanatos"", contained one of the first modern defences of suicide bringing proof from the conduct of Biblical figures, such as Jesus, Samson and Saul, and presenting arguments on grounds of reason and nature to sanction suicide in"
"Ralph Robinson (humanist) Ralph Robinson (1520–1577) was an English scholar and man of letters. He is best known for his English translation of Sir Thomas More's ""Utopia"", originally written in Latin in 1516. Robinson was educated at Stamford School, Lincolnshire and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. At school he was a contemporary of William Cecil later Lord Burghley, Lord High Treasurer of England and chief adviser to Queen Elizabeth I, and the Foreword of his translation, which is dedicated to Burghley, alludes to their school-days together. He graduated B.A. in 1540, and was elected fellow of his college Corpus on 16"
"Cornelius Grapheus Cornelius Grapheus (1482 – 19 December 1558), Latinized from Cornelis De Schrijver, was a secretary to the city of Antwerp and writer. Grapheus was born in Aalst, County of Flanders, in 1482. As a young man he travelled in Italy. When Thomas More's ""Utopia"" was first printed in 1516, Grapheus provided some liminary verses. By 1520 he was secretary to the city of Antwerp, writing a Latin panegyric to greet Charles V on his return to that city from Spain. In 1522 he was arrested on accusation of heresy, was taken to Brussels for questioning, and made a"
"During the ""Khrushchev Thaw"" period, the Soviet writer Ivan Efremov produced the science-fiction utopia ""Andromeda"" (1957) in which a major cultural thaw took place: humanity communicates with a galaxy-wide Great Circle and develops its technology and culture within a social framework characterized by vigorous competition between alternative philosophies. The English political philosopher James Harrington, author of the utopian work The Commonwealth of Oceana, published in 1656, inspired English country party republicanism and was influential in the design of three American colonies. His theories ultimately contributed to the idealistic principles of the American Founders. The colonies of Carolina (founded in 1670),"
"years after More's execution, that it was first published in England as an English translation by Ralph Robinson. Gilbert Burnet's translation of 1684 is probably the most commonly cited version. The work seems to have been popular, if misunderstood: the introduction of More's ""Epigrams"" of 1518 mentions a man who did not regard More as a good writer. The eponymous title Utopia has since eclipsed More's original story and the term is now commonly used to describe an idyllic, imaginary society. Although he may not have directly founded the contemporary notion of what has since become known as Utopian and"
"most troublesome questions about ""Utopia"" is Thomas More's reason for writing it. Most scholars see it as a comment on or criticism of 16th century Catholicism, for the evils of More's day are laid out in Book I and in many ways apparently solved in Book II. Indeed, Utopia has many of the characteristics of satire, and there are many jokes and satirical asides such as how honest people are in Europe, but these are usually contrasted with the simple, uncomplicated society of the Utopians. Yet, the puzzle is that some of the practices and institutions of the Utopians, such"
"the inspiration of Scripture. For example, in the medieval Christian church some monastic communities and religious orders shared their land and their other property (see religious and Christian communism). Communist thought has also been traced back to the works of the 16th-century English writer Thomas More. In his treatise ""Utopia"" (1516), More portrayed a society based on common ownership of property, whose rulers administered it through the application of reason. In the 17th century, communist thought surfaced again in England, where a Puritan religious group known as the ""Diggers"" advocated the abolition of private ownership of land. In his 1895"
"massing to provide ample light and air to all residents. The engraving of Whitwell's famous perspective of the proposed town was entitled ""DESIGN for a Community of 2,000 Persons Founded upon a Principle Commended by Plato, Lord Bacon and Sir Thomas More"". The direct influence of Sir Thomas More's book ""Utopia"" (1516) on Whitwell's design is obvious. The layout of long communal dwellings of the New Harmony design recalls More's portrayal of the fictional capital of Utopia, Aircastle, where houses built as long terraces contain back doors opening onto shared gardens, features employed in New Harmony. While New Harmony was"
"""Aristopia."" The eighteenth-century freethinker John Fransham (1730–1810) left a posthumous manuscript titled ""Memorablilia Classica"", which contains a piece called ""The Code of Aristopia, or Scheme for a Perfect Government."" Aristopia Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World is an 1895 utopian novel by Castello Holford, considered the first novel-length alternate history in English (and among the earliest alternate histories in general). Though part of the major wave utopian and dystopian literature that distinguished the final decades of the nineteenth century, Holford's book reverses the normal stance of utopian projection: instead of imagining a better society at a future time or"
"""A great leap in the dark,"" uttered in his final conscious moments. His body was interred in St John the Baptist's Church, Ault Hucknall, in Derbyshire. Thomas Hobbes Thomas Hobbes (; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679), in some older texts Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, was an English philosopher who is considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book ""Leviathan"", which expounded an influential formulation of social contract theory. In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, jurisprudence, geometry, the physics"
"perfection in the whole of its society. This idea was started by Sir Thomas More, when he wrote the book ""Utopia"". The book described the physical features of a city as well as the life of the people who lived in it. His book sparked a flame in literary circles. A great many other books of similar nature were written in short order. They all followed a major theme: equality. Everyone had the same amount of wealth, respect, and life experiences. The society had a calculated elimination of variety and a monotonous environment. The city where they lived was always"
"Eutopia (short story) ""Eutopia"" is a short story by American writer Poul Anderson, originally appeared in Harlan Ellison's 1967 science fiction anthology ""Dangerous Visions"". It later appeared in Anderson's 1981 collection ""The Dark Between the Stars"" and the showcase ""The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century"" (2001). At the beginning of the story, the protagonist (Iason Philippou) is exploring various parallel universes. After encountering a version of Earth which is split into hundreds of minor city-states, Iason is now on the run. He makes his way to a town whose inhabitants help him, as he is their guest."
"Thomas Hobbes Thomas Hobbes (; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679), in some older texts Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, was an English philosopher who is considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book ""Leviathan"", which expounded an influential formulation of social contract theory. In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, jurisprudence, geometry, the physics of gases, theology, ethics, and general philosophy. Though on rational grounds a champion of absolutism for the sovereign, Hobbes also developed some of the fundamentals of"
"War. In the 16th century, the English writer Sir Thomas More portrayed a society based on common ownership of property in his treatise ""Utopia"", whose leaders administered it through the application of reason. Several groupings in the English Civil War supported this idea, but especially the Diggers, who espoused clear communistic but agrarian ideals. (Cromwell and the Grandees' attitude to these groups was at best ambivalent and often hostilesee Bernstein's classic book ""Cromwell and Communism""). Criticism of the idea of private property continued into the Enlightenment era of the 18th century, through such thinkers as the deeply religious Jean-Jacques Rousseau."
"between 747 and 759. In Japan, Emperor Saga abolished the death penalty in 818 under the influence of Shinto and it lasted until 1156. In England, a public statement of opposition was included in The Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards, written in 1395. Sir Thomas More's ""Utopia"", published in 1516, debated the benefits of the death penalty in dialogue form, coming to no firm conclusion. More was himself executed for treason in 1535. More recent opposition to the death penalty stemmed from the book of the Italian Cesare Beccaria ""Dei Delitti e Delle Pene"" (""On Crimes and Punishments""), published in"
"Clarence H. Miller Clarence H. Miller (born c. 1930 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American professor emeritus of English at Saint Louis University. He is best known for major contributions to the study of Renaissance literature, and creating the classic translations from Latin of Saint Thomas More's 1516 book ""Utopia"", and Erasmus's 1509 ""The Praise of Folly"". ""Utopia"" is considered one of the most important works of European humanism. Miller was also Executive Editor of the Yale University Thomas More variorum project, which produced, over a period of decades, the 15-volume ""Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St."
"will live in."" Some have commented on this trend, saying that ""it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism"". Dystopia A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- ""bad"" and τόπος ""place""; alternatively, cacotopia, kakotopia, or simply anti-utopia) is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening. It is translated as ""not-good place"" and is an antonym of utopia, a term that was coined by Sir Thomas More and figures as the title of his best known work, ""Utopia"", published 1516, a blueprint for an ideal society with minimal crime,"
"A Modern Utopia A Modern Utopia is a 1905 novel by H. G. Wells. Because of the complexity and sophistication of its narrative structure ""A Modern Utopia"" has been called ""not so much a modern as a postmodern utopia."" The novel is best known for its notion that a voluntary order of nobility known as the Samurai could effectively rule a ""kinetic and not static"" world state so as to solve ""the problem of combining progress with political stability"". In his preface Wells forecasts (incorrectly) that ""A Modern Utopia"" would be the last of a series of volumes on social"